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Do Islamic Leaders Mean What They Say?

By Michael Berenbaum

Richard L. Rubenstein, my doctoral advisor, first rose to prominence with his path-breaking 1966 book, “After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism.” Improperly regarded as the Jewish contribution to the then fashionable “death of God debate,” it argued that no theology could speak to the Jewish condition unless it grappled with the twin realities of contemporary Jewish life: the Holocaust and the State of Israel. Rubenstein’s points were so valid that they forced a significant redirection of Jewish thought and set the theological agenda for most of the next three decades.Read More

A Life of Resistance: Marek Edelman, 90, Last Ghetto Uprising Commander

By Michael Berenbaum and Jon Avnet

Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was the fighter who stayed behind.Read More

A Murder Highlights Holocaust Museum’s Value

By Michael Berenbaum

From its inception, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has regarded itself — and been regarded by others — as a high-priority target, and for good reason. Though not a Jewish institution but a government institution, it is one of the most visible manifestations of the prominence of American Jewry — its creators — and is the cathedral of American Holocaust memory.Read More

Holocaust Museum: America at its Best

By Michael Berenbaum

From its inception, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has regarded itself — and been regarded by others — as a high-priority target, and for good reason. Though not a Jewish institution, but a government institution, it is one of the most visible institutions that reflect the prominence of American Jewry — its creators — and the most central American institution dealing with the Holocaust.Read More

When the Last Survivor Is Gone

By Michael Berenbaum

Two years ago, an MBA student whom I mentored wrote her thesis on how major Holocaust organizations were planning to deal with the inevitable — the fact that soon, all too soon, there would be no survivors.Read More


 

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